• 1Jul 11

  recent games and E3

  My Recent Games:

  Not long ago I bought 2 PS3 games Modnation Racers and Heavy Rain and I want to give my thoughts on both of them

  Modnation Racers:

  This game is great I would consider it the Forza Motorsport of Kart Racing (atleast that's my best comparison)because of it's in-depth customization options allowing users to create their own Karts, drivers, and tracks and the variety of user-created content is insane I've seen detailed mods of iconic characters like Mario so well done I downloaded them in an instant along with competive online-play and a pretty decent career mode this game was worth the buy.

  Heavy Rain:

  All I can say is wow, really wow and in a good way though this game is just an interactive movie it's an awesome movie to say the the least, everything, the story, the setting, the character development all very well done and has given me an experience I never had before in a video and have one of the biggest "slap-to-the-face" plot twists I have ever seen in a story, and the bestpart is that the game kept me in where even the most mundane of cutscenes are entertaining, unlike in that other gameflooded with cutscenes (MGS4), and the story having a constant emotional impact on me from my actions, The few problems I have with this gameare it's occassionally frustrating movement controls and a few plot-holes but overall it's a unique experience.

  Now for E3 and my god was itboring this yearXP:

  like last year this year involved more gimmicks with motion controls only it's even worst, not only were there only a few interesting games shown

  Nintendo:

  Nintendo's attempt in making a new Wii was just pitiful I mean the Wii U? I could get past the stupid name if only it's presentation wasn't so bland and gimmicky why not announce the making of a new Starfox game instead? that would've been great but no instead we got a new console that looks like an ipad with the title "Wii" slapped in the cover. Overall Nintendo's conference was laughable at best

  Microsoft:

  Unfotunately Microsoft's presentation wa salso pretty boring and pathetic all they showed was MORE footage of Modern WarFAIL 3 andGears of War 3 because obviously people weren't hype up enough about the game (sarcasm for those who don't get it); Halo 4 to me is just Microsoft's attempt at milking a franchise that doesn't needa sequel (Sound Familiar!? Activision?)and it really didn't catch my interest, to me the story ended at Halo 3 I mean the war's over, the flood's dead, the prophets are dead, the Covenant disbanded what else is there to explain other than the fates of MasterChief and Cortana?Moving on,and like last year they spent 90% of the time putting up another atrocious presentation of Kinect but in the end the 360's exclusive abilties for Mass Effect 3 do look great and will probably make the game even more immersive (me being a huge Mass Effect fan) but don't motivate me in buying a Kinect. Overall Nothing Special

  Sony:

  Suprisingly Sony had nothing big to show other than the new PS Vita which looks cool, Uncharted 3 looks pretty sick, and Resistance 3 seems to retain the atmosphere that made the first one great, and the handful of games that Sony showdo look pretty cool there was not much to excited about, not even an update on the development of the new twisted metal game (sadly)but atleast that didn't spend most of their time showing of the PS Move like last year. Overall Not bad but againNothing Special

  • Posted Jul 1, 2011 8:17 pm GMT
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• 26Apr 11

  I can't believe you Sony!

  It was bad enough that it took you six days to tell us what was happening on PSN but you had also just confirmed that My identity along with the identity of millions of others could be stolen?

  Why did you not tell us earlier? it would have been better to come clean albout 4-5 daysearlier but now6-7 days after you shut down the system you just tell us that our identities could've been stolen?

  I could care less about waiting for online to comeback just to play games but my identity being stolen is much more important!

  I guess it is safe to say that this has got to be your biggest blunder yet.

  You better do something about this Sony or you'll be dealing with millions of angry consumers who their IDs stolen by your careless.

  I can forgive the late update on the cause of shutdown but this is different. We trusted you with our personal and credit card information and you couldn'teven take care of it? Pathetic

  • Posted Apr 26, 2011 8:55 pm GMT
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• 26Apr 11

  Sony's update on PSN outage

  Well, I guess it's safe to say that the situation on PSN is even bigger than we thought, recently Sony confirmed that causes for PSN's shutdown is that the network was compromised by and I quote"illegal intrusions" or hackers, Which means that recovery is going to take longer than we thought, but with this comes some good news:

  "We have a clear path to have PlayStation Network and Qriocity systems back online, and expect to restore some services within a week"- PS Blog

  I'm not holding my breath, but I'm glad that Sony is deticated to fixing this issue. In the meantime while we can't play online there are some awesome single player games we could still play like: Heavy Rain, Infamous, Mass Effect 2, Uncharted 2, etc. Or If you have them, why not play on Steam or Xbox Live if you really want to play online?

  As for me, while I am a little upset by this, i'm not going to overeact and send Sony piles of hate mail, because at least they are deticated in fixing this issue and I have Xbox Live as my alternative if I want to play online. It never hurts to own other consoles folks.

  • Posted Apr 26, 2011 5:00 pm GMT
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